I'm separating this from the remastering guide because it's a distinct topic and because there's been some interest expressed in updating the gdb extension.

meo:

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I did it so that I could make an extension of the Gnu Debugger at the same time.

Did you compress as UCI or just tar.gz? Do you boot toram so that would explain why your RAM use was so inflated?

I'm also curious if you set any other variables when running configure. I just compiled gdb and strace in the same directory (/opt/gdb-6.8) but without any other configure options other than target=i486-linux for either. As a result, I have the following bloat I could cut:2.5M ./info1.1M ./share/locale 48K ./man/man1

I now have a gdb v6.1 .dsl extension - made from a deb package I found in the wild that had been backported (from Sarge?) to Woody. It's only 4 years out of date as opposed to the 6 year old current gdb extension .

But if you have a more recent gdb uci on the way (good!), I won't bother posting this as an update to ye veryie olde gdb.dsl I put in the repo

Does anyone need gdbtui since it can be called (iirc) from gdb with --i=tui?

Informal poll of those interested in this:Do you want or even care if I leave in NLS? (See previous entry for languages covered.)Do you want both gdb and gdbtui?Do you want strace included or as a separate extension?Anything else?

Edit: Uncompressed, stripped, without gdbtui (which can still be called from the binary as noted above), with man and info and NLS removed: